"Paredes using molcajetes (mortars and pestles) to highlight Indigenous matriarchal knowledge, sacred foods, and medicine."

Tequila Bottle Houses and Border Relations: Interview with Viviana Paredes

Creando Espacio/ Making Space, A Collaborative Community Based Project with Hector Dionicio Mendoza

"Historically, the Bay Area has been the at forefront of diverse political and social movements...growing up in an environment that fostered a rich counterculture helped formulate my Chicana/Pocha perspective".

​Viviana Paredes’ “Alimentos” Nourishes The Triton Museum With Glass Sculptures

"Though MACLA has previously exhibited these artists as well as other artists who work with glass, this is its first exhibition dedicated solely to the medium."

In We Were Once of…, she created glass containers shaped like kernels themselves to showcase varieties of heirloom corn. “It’s highlighting what our tradition was, and I made a totem of it,” 

"Sculpture and installations are my methods of expressing my thinking and ideas. For me sculpture is about the materials an artist uses, and I use glass as a lens"